digital darkroom room color

hello,
i am setting a room dedicated as a digital darkroom.
are there any colors that are recommended to paint the room? i seem to
recall the newpaper that i used to work at, repainted their room a special
shade of gray, in the area they did their desktop publishing.

is it anything i should even worry about?

tia,
paul

"Paul Bauer" wrote in message
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hello,
i am setting a room dedicated as a digital darkroom.
are there any colors that are recommended to paint the room? i seem to
recall the newpaper that i used to work at, repainted their room a special
shade of gray, in the area they did their desktop publishing.

is it anything i should even worry about?
I suppose you could paint it gray or black. Mine is not, and I have no
plans to change.
The artists seem to want the room as dark as possible.
Jim

"Paul Bauer" wrote in message
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hello,
i am setting a room dedicated as a digital darkroom.
are there any colors that are recommended to paint the room? i seem to
recall the newpaper that i used to work at, repainted their room a special
shade of gray, in the area they did their desktop publishing.

is it anything i should even worry about?
I suppose you could paint it gray or black. Mine is not, and I have no
plans to change.
The artists seem to want the room as dark as possible.
Jim

"Jim" wrote in message
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"Paul Bauer" wrote in message
newsgroups.com...
hello,
i am setting a room dedicated as a digital darkroom.
are there any colors that are recommended to paint the room? i seem to
recall the newpaper that i used to work at, repainted their room a
special
shade of gray, in the area they did their desktop publishing.

is it anything i should even worry about?
I suppose you could paint it gray or black. Mine is not, and I have no
plans to change.
The artists seem to want the room as dark as possible.
Jim


What would you recommend to use as a digital safelight?

"Jim" wrote in message
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"Paul Bauer" wrote in message
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hello,
i am setting a room dedicated as a digital darkroom.
are there any colors that are recommended to paint the room? i seem to
recall the newpaper that i used to work at, repainted their room a
special
shade of gray, in the area they did their desktop publishing.

is it anything i should even worry about?
I suppose you could paint it gray or black. Mine is not, and I have no
plans to change.
The artists seem to want the room as dark as possible.
Jim


What would you recommend to use as a digital safelight?

"Paul Bauer" writes:

hello,
i am setting a room dedicated as a digital darkroom.
are there any colors that are recommended to paint the room? i seem to
recall the newpaper that i used to work at, repainted their room a special
shade of gray, in the area they did their desktop publishing.

is it anything i should even worry about?

Well, you probably don't want the walls a really strong, saturated,
color; they'll color everything in the room except the monitor, your
eyes will adapt to it, and the monitor will look funny and/or you'll
make bad color decisions when looking at it.

I'd say that any density of neutral gray was an excellent choice; I've
got light neutral gray walls and a white ceiling, myself.
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"Paul Bauer" writes:

hello,
i am setting a room dedicated as a digital darkroom.
are there any colors that are recommended to paint the room? i seem to
recall the newpaper that i used to work at, repainted their room a special
shade of gray, in the area they did their desktop publishing.

is it anything i should even worry about?

Well, you probably don't want the walls a really strong, saturated,
color; they'll color everything in the room except the monitor, your
eyes will adapt to it, and the monitor will look funny and/or you'll
make bad color decisions when looking at it.

I'd say that any density of neutral gray was an excellent choice; I've
got light neutral gray walls and a white ceiling, myself.
--
David Dyer-Bennet, , http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/
RKBA: http://noguns-nomoney.com/ http://www.dd-b.net/carry/
Pics: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/ http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/
Dragaera/Steven Brust: http://dragaera.info/

"David Dyer-Bennet" wrote in message
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"Paul Bauer" writes:

I'd say that any density of neutral gray was an excellent choice; I've
got light neutral gray walls and a white ceiling, myself.

I just built my digital darkroom, and chose two shades of gray for the walls
and cabinetry. I leave the room lights off when working with photos.

See it he
http://home.bellsouth.net/p/s/commun...iew=thumbs&ck=

"David Dyer-Bennet" wrote in message
...
"Paul Bauer" writes:

I'd say that any density of neutral gray was an excellent choice; I've
got light neutral gray walls and a white ceiling, myself.

I just built my digital darkroom, and chose two shades of gray for the walls
and cabinetry. I leave the room lights off when working with photos.

See it he
http://home.bellsouth.net/p/s/commun...iew=thumbs&ck=

The point is that ambient light affects your perception of print color more
than monitor color: the reflectivity of a print is far less than the
apparent brightness of a monitor.
Let a print dry and look at under different light sources, primarily
tungsten, daylight and the usual mixture of the two, before you decide on
whether the color balance is "correct" or not.